Steph Campbell > Quotes

“When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same.”
― Stephanie Campbell, My Heart for Yours

“My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Screw the daring tough guy image, what happened with us broke me.”
― Stephanie Campbell, My Heart for Yours

“Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.”
― Stephanie Campbell, My Heart for Yours

“I try to smile at her, but I can't extend my flexibility training to my mouth, it just won't move.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“You know what feels really fucking awesome? Loving someone so much that it's all consuming. Telling that person you love them, even though they refuse to say it back. And then finally hearing them say that they do love you, but to someone else. To someone they have slept with. Someone that isn't you. I want to forget I heard those three words. I want to dissolve the images I have in my heard of her with him. I think I'm going to throw up.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Part of me aches to touch her now that she's so close. But the other part, the logical part, wants to coast myself in Teflon, because I know that her being here, no matter what her reasons, is going to seriously fuck with my world.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“We all die, sweetheart. You’ve just got to live your life with enough meaning while you’re still here to make it all worthwhile.”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“Does it ever make you sad?"
"Does what?"
"The Sunset,"
"Sad? Nah, I think it's peaceful."
"Not to me. I've always found it depressing."
"How so?"
"I guess because it's the end. I hate endings."
"Not all endings are bad though. I think of sunsets more as a clean slate. Besides, they're beautiful... like you"
"Beautiful things never last.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Life is too short to waste on bullshit.”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“Isn’t ‘I need space’ the universal couples equivalent of ‘I need you to pack your shit and get out of my life’?”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“Yes. I’m going to sink into what I feel for you. I’m going to sink into the good times and the scary shit. I’m going to sink with you, because I’m tired of drifting and treading, never committing to anything. I want to sink with you.”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“She's my best friend, and I know she means well, but as she talks I'm mentally calculating all the ways I could silence her. I'm bigger than her... I wonder if I could use my straw for some sort of MacGyver inspired weapon.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“The problem with passion is it goes both ways. Love/Hate. The line between those two is a lot thinner than I thought.”
― Steph Campbell, My Heart for Yours

“You always hear people talk about how there are moments in your life when you just know that things will never be the same. I always thought that was all horseshit. But here, now, with the feeling of her soft, incredible lips moving with mine, I know that it happens.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Letting go is never easy. Especially when you can’t see where you’re going to land. But I’ve learned that sometimes, you just have to throw your weight behind the change. Take the chance that you may fall.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Delicate

“Beautiful things never last.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“I loved Trevor wholly. In all the good ways that made me feel alive and special and important. But also, in the bad ways. The ways that shut me off from others and left me alone with my pain. The ways that had me keep secrets. I loved Trevor in all the ways that I thought mattered, even though I knew that I didn’t.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Delicate

“Talking about myself makes me feel like I'm having an allergic reaction, especially when compliments are involved.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“If you find that one person who believes in you, helps you combat your doubts, lifts you up when you’re ready to lie down and say ‘screw it’? If you find that person, grab tight. So tight. Never let go.”
― Steph Campbell, Limits

“It’s normal to hate everything when you lose someone you love,”
― Steph Campbell, Limits

“Like, you don't get to move one and just blow your past away. Everything you do, every new move you make is all tangled up in everything you did.”
― Steph Campbell, Depths

“Everything I do with you feels like an adventure”
― Steph Campbell, Depths

“I have no clue what my motive is for following him, maybe I'm just bored. Maybe it's just so easy to cyber-stalk hotties on Facebook that I've moved on to doing it in real life.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“I go still. Stone still. Ice statue still. Han Solo in carbonite still”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“But it wasn’t just about the sex, though the sex blows my mind. I also wanted to have her around. Her over-loud laugh. Her bearish morning greetings. Her -thrashing/snuggling night-time presence. I miss her. I miss the way she always pushed me, always made me think, always made me work harder. I feel like I hadn’t ever been able to repay her for all that, and just when I was finally in a position to do it, she found the ring box.”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“There’s no equation that can express how much I love you, doll. No number. There are no limits.”
― Steph Campbell, Limits

“I don’t sleep with broken-hearted guys. It’s too pathetic.”
― Steph Campbell, Lengths

“Have you ever had a date so bad, it makes you contemplate a lobotomy?”
― Steph Campbell, Depths

“I'm reading some book about a girl trapped in a love triangle between two supernatural beings, and wishing that that was my biggest problem. ~ Grounding Quinn”
― Stephanie Campbell